Amos 9:12
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12 (A)That they may possess the remnant of (B)Edom,[a]
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.
Footnotes
- Amos 9:12 LXX mankind
Isaiah 43:7
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7 Everyone who is (A)called by My name,
Whom (B)I have created for My glory;
I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”
Isaiah 65:1
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The Righteousness of God’s Judgment
65 “I was (A)sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’
To a nation that (B)was not called by My name.
Acts 15:17
New King James Version
17 So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name,
Says the [a]Lord who does all these things.’
Footnotes
- Acts 15:17 NU Lord, who makes these things
Daniel 9:18-19
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18 (A)O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes (B)and see our desolations, and the city (C)which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”
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Jeremiah 14:9
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9 Why should You be like a man astonished,
Like a mighty one (A)who cannot save?
Yet You, O Lord, (B)are in our midst,
And we are called by Your name;
Do not leave us!
Isaiah 14:1-2
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Mercy on Jacob
14 For the Lord (A)will have mercy on Jacob, and (B)will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. (C)The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. 2 Then people will take them (D)and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, (E)and rule over their oppressors.
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Numbers 24:17-18
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17 “I(A) see Him, but not now;
I behold Him, but not near;
(B)A Star shall come out of Jacob;
(C)A Scepter shall rise out of Israel,
And [a]batter the brow of Moab,
And destroy all the sons of [b]tumult.
18 “And (D)Edom shall be a possession;
Seir also, his enemies, shall be a possession,
While Israel does [c]valiantly.
Footnotes
- Numbers 24:17 shatter the forehead
- Numbers 24:17 Heb. Sheth, Jer. 48:45
- Numbers 24:18 mightily
Jeremiah 15:16
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16 Your words were found, and I (A)ate them,
And (B)Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;
For I am called by Your name,
O Lord God of hosts.
Isaiah 63:19
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19 We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,
Those who were never called by Your name.
Isaiah 11:14
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14 But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
Together they shall plunder the [a]people of the East;
(A)They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;
And the people of Ammon shall obey them.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 11:14 Lit. sons
Psalm 60:8
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8 (A)Moab is My washpot;
(B)Over Edom I will cast My shoe;
(C)Philistia, shout in triumph because of Me.”
Genesis 27:37
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37 Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, (A)“Indeed I have made him your master, and all his brethren I have given to him as servants; with (B)grain and wine I have [a]sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son?”
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- Genesis 27:37 provided support for
Genesis 27:29
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29 (A)Let peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you.
Be master over your brethren,
And (B)let your mother’s sons bow down to you.
(C)Cursed be everyone who curses you,
And blessed be those who bless you!”
Malachi 1:4
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4 Even though Edom has said,
“We have been impoverished,
But we will return and build the desolate places,”
Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“They may build, but I will (A)throw down;
They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness,
And the people against whom the Lord will have indignation forever.
Obadiah 18-21
New King James Version
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph (A)a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.
19 The [a]South (B)shall possess the mountains of Esau,
(C)And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As (D)far as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
(E)Shall possess the cities of the [b]South.
21 Then (F)saviors[c] shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
And the (G)kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:19 Heb. Negev
- Obadiah 1:20 Heb. Negev
- Obadiah 1:21 deliverers
Joel 3:8
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8 I will sell your sons and your daughters
Into the hand of the people of Judah,
And they will sell them to the (A)Sabeans,[a]
To a people (B)far off;
For the Lord has spoken.”
Footnotes
- Joel 3:8 Lit. Shebaites, Is. 60:6; Ezek. 27:22
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